The American Judicial Tradition : Profiles of Leading American Judges

Profiles of Leading American Judges

• Author(s): G. Edward White John B. Minor Professor of Law and Cromwell Research Professor of History University of Virginia,
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Pages: 576
• ISBN_10: 0199729182
  ISBN_13: 9780199729180
  
• Language: en

Description:... Now available in a newly revised and updated second edition, this highly-acclaimed volume presents a series of portraits of the most famous appellate judges in American history from John Marshall to the Burger court. G. Edward White traces the American judicial tradition through sketches of the careers and contributions of such significant judges as John Marshall, Joseph Story, Roger Taney, Stephen Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Louis Brandeis, Charles Evans Hughes, Felix Frankfurter, Hugo Black, Earl Warren, William Brennan, and Sandra Day O'Connor. This expanded edition contains a new preface, an updated bibliographical note, and two new chapters, one on Justice William O. Douglas and one on the Burger Court.